JadePuffer agentic attacks now target AI model data with ransomware

The JadePuffer autonomous AI agent has upgraded with custom malware called EncForge that focuses on encrypting AI assets, ...
SDxCentral

TurboQuant: Is compression all you need to beat the memory crunch?

Vector quantization, stock dips & RAMageddon – the real story behind how a memory compression algorithm went viral ...
GeekWire

Microsoft says its data centers use 90% less water than its earliest facilities as public concern grows

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...
TechCrunch

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...
Ars Technica

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...
The Boston Globe

Energy, water use, and pollution by data centers is expected to double in four years

WASHINGTON — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
Snopes.com

Will Utah data center use 16B gallons of water and span almost 3 Manhattans? What to know

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...
PBS

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...
Time

AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns

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VentureBeat

Cohere cracks lossless quantization and native citations with first full Apache 2.0 licensed open model Command A+

At the architectural level, Command A+ represents a major evolution from Cohere’s previous dense models. It is a decoder-only Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Transformer. While the model houses a ...
KUTV

Residents question water use as Utah faces drought, data center plan

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — As water restrictions take effect across northern Utah following one of the driest winters in recent years, some residents are questioning conservation messaging as a massive ...
Morningstar

Nota AI Wins Grand Prize at NVIDIA Nemotron Hackathon, Proving MoE Quantization Prowess with Synthetic Data Technology

Took 1st place in Track C and Grand Prize among all 20 competing teams with synthetic data generation technology specialized for MoE quantization Built a dataset using an agent based on Nemotron 3 ...